If you happened to have hit the road lately, there is a better chance than not that you have noticed that we have transitioned seasons here in the Cornhusker State. No matter if you are trudging down a rural country road, or flying down the highway, everywhere you look there are signs that harvest season is kicking into high gear.

“For it’s a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September And the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame…” — September Song I decided it was time to get out of the office and go see Nebraska. It’s been a post-pandemic while since I have done so. I jumped at the chance to ride to Chadron with a friend, with numerous stops along the way.

When I was growing up, from time to time—especially during the summers as I got older—I had to lend a hand pumping gas at my parents’ gas station in Palmer. I wasn’t a huge fan of the work; I am not a very mechanical person, and I was the worst at washing windows.

Governor Jim Pillen had an epiphany that paying a consultant ten million dollars over the next four years would save the state money. Pillen has signed the $2.5 million/year contract, renewable three times, with Epiphany Associates of Utah to find ways to save the state money.

A couple weeks ago, I took a small road trip to cover some high school volleyball and when I came home, I was plumb tuckered out. In fact, the excitement of the matchup and the first two days of the work week was such that, after sitting down in my chair in the living room, I was soon out like a light.

Nothing ruins a public hearing on a legislative bill like the public showing up. Wait, what? A former boss said it years ago at the end of a particularly long day of hearings at the State Capitol.

An open letter to Colorado. It’s fitting that I am writing this on the twenty- second Anniversary of the September 11th attacks on America, the day that hatred manifested itself openly on American soil.

There once was a time when, if you wanted to be a newspaper man, or desired to carve out a living in any of the other trades for that matter, you would have had to first undergo a lengthy hands-on education.

At a time when people’s trust in government is waning, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued an opinion that the Legislature’s Office of the Public Counsel, better known as the Ombudsman’s Office, is unconstitutional.